Dredging & Flood Defence

The Belgian dredging, environmental and marine engineering group DEME has recently secured several international dredging contracts with a total contract value of €150m.

Italy-based dredger and dredging equipment manufacturer Italdraghe has reported a busy and successful 2015, with activity reaching record setting dimensions.

Barcelona, Spain-based MTG Systems used the occasion of the recent Europort exhibition to introduce DMET, a hammerless system for replacing cutter suction dredger teeth which promises to maximise productivity.

Nearly 250 members of the dredging community gathered in Rotterdam last November for CEDA Dredging Days, which ran concurrently with the Europort exhibition.

Envisan France, the French environmental subsidiary of Belgium’s Jan De Nul Group, has inaugurated its Eco-Materials Production Centre in La Seyne-sur-Mer, the first centre of its kind in the Mediterranean area.

The Dutch Highways and Waterways Agency (Rijkswaterstaat) has awarded the construction of the new IJmuiden sea lock, which is located at the entrance to the North Sea Canal, officially to the Consortium…

The Netherlands’ Royal IHC has launched the 1,840m3 capacity twin-screw trailing suction hopper dredger’ Mahury’ at partner shipyard MTG Dolphin Shipyard in Varna, Bulgaria.

Italian dredging specialist Dragflow has introduced a dredge that they claim can easily work in every kind of conditions, even when the water level is minimum.

Dutch expertise has contributed to Indonesia’s developing maritime industry in the shape of Barito Equator, a Damen 2500 trailing suction hopper dredger built at the country’s Steadfast Marine shipyard.

Royal IHC has launched the 5,500m³ trailing suction hopper dredger Ilembe from its shipyard at Kinderdijk in the Netherlands. The dredger is being built for Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), the national…

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Dredging International Asia Pacific-Daelim Joint Venture (DDJV) have signed a contract for the Tuas Terminal Phase 1 reclamation, wharf construction and dredging…

Royal Boskalis Westminster had a good first quarter of 2015, reporting increased revenue compared to the same period in 2014. Revenue was stable when adjusted for acquisitions, divestments and currency effects.

The Directorate General of Public Works (Rijkswaterstaat) in the Netherlands has awarded the project to improve the Hoevelaken motorway interchange to the A1/28 joint venture established by the Royal BAM Group and…

In order to accommodate larger vessels the Scottish Port of Grangemouth has commissioned a feasibility study to assess the viability and cost of deepening the shipping channels within the port.

Italy’s leading dredger builder, Italdraghe, and its consortium partner CPN Srl are currently building three dredgers for the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources.